diff --git a/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/ClusterModel.java b/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/ClusterModel.java
index 10207ea87d53..209cd3c4879d 100644
--- a/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/ClusterModel.java
+++ b/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/ClusterModel.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public class ClusterModel {
     static final double idealQueryCpuLoad = 0.75;
     static final double idealWriteCpuLoad = 0.95;
 
-    static final double idealContainerMemoryLoad = 0.8;
+    static final double idealContainerMemoryLoad = 0.9;
     static final double idealContentMemoryLoad = 0.65;
 
     static final double idealContainerDiskLoad = 0.95;
diff --git a/node-repository/src/test/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/AutoscalingTest.java b/node-repository/src/test/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/AutoscalingTest.java
index 5b15327556fd..17116784c8b9 100644
--- a/node-repository/src/test/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/AutoscalingTest.java
+++ b/node-repository/src/test/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/AutoscalingTest.java
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ public void test_autoscaling_without_traffic_exclusive() {
         fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration.negated());
         fixture.loader().zeroTraffic(20, 1);
         fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaled down",
-                                         2, 1, 2, 16, 100,
+                                         2, 1, 2, 8, 100,
                                          fixture.autoscale());
     }
 
diff --git a/node-repository/src/test/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/maintenance/ScalingSuggestionsMaintainerTest.java b/node-repository/src/test/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/maintenance/ScalingSuggestionsMaintainerTest.java
index c53a4d88c015..2fe458e139a8 100644
--- a/node-repository/src/test/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/maintenance/ScalingSuggestionsMaintainerTest.java
+++ b/node-repository/src/test/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/maintenance/ScalingSuggestionsMaintainerTest.java
@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ public void testScalingSuggestionsMaintainer() {
                                                                                    new TestMetric());
         maintainer.maintain();
 
-        assertEquals("8 nodes with [vcpu: 3.3, memory: 4.5 Gb, disk: 10.0 Gb, bandwidth: 0.1 Gbps, architecture: any]",
+        assertEquals("8 nodes with [vcpu: 3.3, memory: 4.0 Gb, disk: 10.0 Gb, bandwidth: 0.1 Gbps, architecture: any]",
                      suggestionOf(app1, cluster1, tester).resources().get().toString());
         assertEquals("7 nodes with [vcpu: 4.4, memory: 5.3 Gb, disk: 16.5 Gb, bandwidth: 0.1 Gbps, architecture: any]",
                      suggestionOf(app2, cluster2, tester).resources().get().toString());
 
         // Secondary suggestions
-        assertEquals("9 nodes with [vcpu: 2.9, memory: 4.5 Gb, disk: 10.0 Gb, bandwidth: 0.1 Gbps, architecture: any]",
+        assertEquals("9 nodes with [vcpu: 2.9, memory: 4.0 Gb, disk: 10.0 Gb, bandwidth: 0.1 Gbps, architecture: any]",
                 suggestionsOf(app1, cluster1, tester).get(1).resources().get().toString());
         assertEquals("8 nodes with [vcpu: 3.8, memory: 4.7 Gb, disk: 14.2 Gb, bandwidth: 0.1 Gbps, architecture: any]",
                 suggestionsOf(app2, cluster2, tester).get(1).resources().get().toString());
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public void testScalingSuggestionsMaintainer() {
         addMeasurements(0.10f, 0.10f, 0.10f, 0, 500, app1, tester.nodeRepository());
         maintainer.maintain();
         assertEquals("Suggestion stays at the peak value observed",
-                     "8 nodes with [vcpu: 3.3, memory: 4.5 Gb, disk: 10.0 Gb, bandwidth: 0.1 Gbps, architecture: any]",
+                     "8 nodes with [vcpu: 3.3, memory: 4.0 Gb, disk: 10.0 Gb, bandwidth: 0.1 Gbps, architecture: any]",
                      suggestionOf(app1, cluster1, tester).resources().get().toString());
         // Utilization is still way down and a week has passed
         tester.clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(7));